Submission guidelines

All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance through double-blind reviewing, where the authors' identities are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to make a good-faith effort to preserve the anonymity of your submission while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Minimally, please take the following steps when preparing your submission:

• Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.
• Remove acknowledgement of identifying names and funding sources.
• Use care when referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other related work by another author.

We encourage the inclusion of anonymised digital research artefacts in the form of anonymised download links in the submitted manuscript. Tools like https://github.com/tdurieux/anonymous_github/ could be useful to authors in anonymising links and contents of research artefacts in code repositories.

Submissions should be formatted using the Springer LNCS format and must not exceed 16 pages (excluding well-marked appendices and references), with an overall limit of 20 pages. Appendices may be included to assist reviewers with questions outside the stated contribution of the paper on which your work is to be evaluated or to provide details that would only interest a small minority of readers. Reviewers are not required to read any appendices, so the paper should be self-contained without them. Finally, according to the latest LNCS guidelines, if a paper includes appendices, they should be placed before the references. Please refer to the Springer Instructions for Authors document for further details!

An Overleaf template is available for the Springer LNCS format: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee members. Papers must be written in English and submitted online in PDF format at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nordsec2025.

Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must agree with Springer LNCS copyright and guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference.

By submitting a paper, you agree that at least one of the authors will physically attend the conference to present it.

NordSec 2025 will publish fully digital online proceedings with Springer Nature in the LNCS series. All authors will get time-limited full access to the full-text proceedings.